Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.
From the record
“State Highway 74 (SH 74) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Colorado. Running 18 miles (29 km) from Interstate 70 (I-70) in El Rancho to SH 8 in Morrison, the highway roughly follows a hook-shaped path running northwest-southeast.”
Wikipedia article Colorado State Highway 74, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 83 National Register listings published here for Jefferson County · listed in 1990 · category: District.
National Register reference number.90001706- the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.
Fires near this property
232 since 2003
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 232 fires within 5 miles of Bear Creek Canyon Scenic Mountain Drive
between 2003 and 2020, burning about 221 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 8 were recorded as arson.
Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted
here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
Reported cause
Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
176
Equipment and vehicle use
14
Natural
11
Smoking
9
Arson/incendiarism
8
Recreation and ceremony
7
Power generation/transmission/distribution
2
Misuse of fire by a minor
2
Fireworks
2
Debris and open burning
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
87 workings within 5 miles of Bear Creek Canyon Scenic Mountain Drive: 35 occurrences, 33 producers, 16 past producers, 2 unknowns.
33 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Fire Clay (Refractory), Uranium, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Morrison, the town this property stands in, in 37 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 31 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 lightning, 1 flood.
The reports record 1 death. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office
filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date
opens the federal record of that event.
Heavy rain, ranging from 6 to 16 inches through the storm event, caused widespread flooding and included the entire drainage systems of Bear, Coal, Clear, Leyden, Ralston and Van Bibber Creeks. In Arvada, Quaker St. near W. 82nd Ave. was closed due to flooding and infrastructure damage. Evacuations were ordered in the area of 68th Ave. and 82nd Ave., between McIntyre and Alkire Streets. Flooding washed out sections of W. 82nd Ave, east of CO93. Flooding was reported near the intersection of W. 92nd Ave. and Indiana St. A section of South Golden Road was washed out near Lena Gulch. Golden Gate Canyon was closed between CO93 and Robinson Hill. Many other roads in northern Jefferson County were inundated by floodwaters. Evacuations were also orders between Bear Lake Dam and Echo Lake Drive on Upper Bear Creek.||Preliminary damage estimates totaled more than $6 million. The most significant damage to roadways, homes and commercial buildings occurred in Evergreen, Coal Creek Canyon and Golden Gate Canyon. County officials said 14 residences were destroyed and 215 damaged. In addition, 27 commercial properties were damaged. Thirty-five minor structures were destroyed and 57 damaged.
No historic map-sheet match is published
for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs
a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
Browse the county's mapped places while that work is
pending.
Listed places nearby
6 within 8 miles
Other National Register properties close
enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both
positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties
to their map sheets.
Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.
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